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Standing beside a bridge across the River Brun, from which the town takes its name, is Burnley Town Hall.

An audience watches from the old bridge as two coracle fishermen cast their nets for salmon or sea-trout. Sturgeon have also been caught here.

Stamford Bridge over the River Derwent is still a popular stopping place for visitors, although the Old Corn Mill inn has recently closed, a victim of drink/drive laws.

Cross the humped bridge over the river from Coltishall, and the village becomes Horstead.

In the distance beyond the bridge is a pub. At the time of this view, it would have been called the Rose and Castle.

The view looks along Bridge Street towards the river. The Original Bakewell Pudding Shop is located further along on the right hand side. Stewarts Clothing Hall is the major building on the right.

This view was taken 70 years after photograph 18642, and apart from the statuary missing from the bridge buttresses, the scene is timeless.

This is the first Waterloo Bridge, which was opened in 1817 by the Prince Regent; this view looks from behind Cleopatra's Needle on the north bank. Below are Victoria Embankment Gardens.

The area south-east of the city was marshy and virtually undeveloped until its draining after the Witham Act of 1812.

This downstream view, taken from almost the same vantage point as N50079, shows the ugly and large hotel built in the intervening fifteen years close to both Trent Bridge cricket ground and Nottingham

Electric street tramcars had been introduced in 1899; in this picture we have a selection of single-deckers and open-top double-deckers.

The main Huddersfield to Manchester railway makes its way along the steep side of the valley, and it has to cross many side valleys.

Most cottages here were built in the century from 1750, and accommodated coal miners. Other trades here included spinning and weaving.

The High Street, across the Witham via Town Bridge rebuilt in 1913, presents a mainly late Georgian character with mostly three-storey frontages to the pavement edge, but many of these conceal earlier

High Street remains unchanged, and is still used for markets on Saturdays. Much of the northern half of the street is pedestrianised.

In the background is the ivy-clad nine-arched bridge spanning the Fowey River.

Perhaps the best-known feature of Burnsall is its magnificent, five-arched stone bridge across the River Wharfe, seen here from the river.

This was designed by John Oldrid Scott, second son of the great Victorian architect, George Gilbert Scott, who built Clifton Hampden's bridge over the Thames further upstream, as well as St Pancras station

Seen from the footbridge to the Oxfordshire bank, the eleven-arch bridge is an 18th-century one that carries a vast amount of traffic, for Sonning is in effect Reading's eastern by-pass.

Thomas Hardy used the Manor at Wool as the setting for the disastrous honeymoon of Tess and Angel Clare in his novel 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'.

This splendid view of the High Street as it ascends the hill towards the Guildhall was taken from the Town Bridge crossing the River Wey.

Looking down the hill from above the station, we see the bridge carrying the Settle- Carlisle railway line running along the edge of the village.

Two bridges and a ford cross the stream that flows past the Blue Anchor Inn, which stands at the centre of the village.

The three-mile trip along the Dee to Eccleston Ferry was, and remains, a popular summer season excursion. Here we have a small paddle steamer on the Eccleston Ferry/Eaton Hall run.